Circle Bros = Wim LecluyseFrozen Lakes was recorded in Hilversum, Netherlands in the winter of 2004Peaks was recorded in Gent, Belgium in the winter of 2016Karina ESP = Chris GowersTime Is Suspended was recorded in Glasgow, Scotland in the summer of 2014

Not so long ago I heard music by Circle Bros for the first time (Vital Weekly 1203). This is the musical project of Wim Lecluyse, who also runs the Morc Records label. I very much enjoyed that work and that pleasure continues here with two short pieces on this lathe cut record. The first piece is 'Frozen Lakes' and it was already recorded in 2004 and is a typical ambient post-rock guitar piece of that time; looped guitars spinning circles and some far-away voice at the end of it all. The 2016 track 'Peaks' sounds like a pleasant accidental recording of objects falling and looping in a whirlpool of delay pedals and last one minute and twenty-one seconds; then the spell is broken, unfortunately. On the other side, we find Chris Gowers' Karina ESP project. These days we know him from his musical project Lowered (Vital Weekly 1027 and 1117) and the label that also releases this lathe cut record. His work as Karina ESP I haven't heard not in a long time, and I assumed he was no longer active as such. 'Time Is Suspended', the piece in question here, was recorded in 2014, so still active then. The last time I heard Karina ESP was 'Detachment' (Vital Weekly 832),released by Morc Records (it's a small world) and here Karina ESP sounds like before; moody ambient music with the strong use of guitars, a bit of percussion (cymbals mostly), feedback/singing bowl and a voice from the next room that sounds like an accidental field recording. It is "about the terminal illness diagnosis of a loved one" and indeed it is a very sad tune. While it is a mournful piece of music, it sounds great. You would wish that more than forty people would hear this as that is the number of copies made of this record. It comes with a handmade cover.- Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly